Have adjusted the piplining setting in FireFox, which has made it noticably faster when it comes down downloading data fromm sites, but it is still taking forever to actually look up web addresses. Looking in the modprobe.conf file I didn't find any lines referring to IPv6 at all. See below for file details:

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# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command